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Today, every young Korean finishes high school.
The trouble is that measuring how much time people spend in school or what degree they have got is not always a good way of seeing what they can actually do.
We were less interested in whether students can simply reproduce what they have learned in school, but we wanted to test whether they can extrapolate from what they know and apply their knowledge in novel situations.
But if you take that logic, you know, you should consider life unfair, because the test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change, whether we are prepared for jobs that haven't been created, to use technologies that haven't been invented, to solve problems we just can't anticipate today.
In our latest assessment in 2009, we measured 74 school systems that together cover 87 percent of the economy.
You can also see that there is a gap of almost three and a half school years between 15-year-olds in Shanghai and 15-year-olds in Chile, and the gap grows to seven school years when you include the countries with really poor performance.
And that also challenges the paradigms of many school systems that believe they are mainly there to sort people.
And Korea also invests into long school days, which drives up costs further.
A major overhaul of Poland's education helped to dramatically reduce between variability among schools, turn around many of the lowest-performing schools, and raise performance by over half a school year.
Portugal was able to consolidate its fragmented school system, raise quality and improve equity, and so did Hungary.
You won't believe it, but there are countries in which the most attractive place to be is not the shopping center but the school.
In bureaucratic school systems, teachers are often left alone in classrooms with a lot of prescription on what they should be teaching.
High-performing systems have made teachers and school principals inventive.
The high-performing systems have helped teachers and school principals to look outwards to the next teacher, the next school around their lives.
Every school succeeds.
If we can help every child, every teacher, every school, every principal, every parent see what improvement is possible, that only the sky is the limit to education improvement, we have laid the foundations for better policies and better lives.
I went to school not because the Maasais' women or girls were going to school.
When I went to school, I had a dream.
I worked hard in school, but when I was in eighth grade, it was a determining factor.
And then I was just finishing my eighth grade, and that was a transition for me to go to high school.
I told my father, "I will only go through this ceremony if you let me go back to school."
"Well," he said, "okay, you'll go to school after the ceremony."
Three weeks later, I was healed, and I was back in high school.
Well, while I was in high school, something happened.
While I was in high school also, my dad was sick.
So the news came, I applied to school and I was accepted to Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and I couldn't come without the support of the village, because I needed to raise money to buy the air ticket.
But I needed the support of the village, and here again, when the men heard, and the people heard that a woman had gotten an opportunity to go to school, they said, "What a lost opportunity.
They were getting mutilated, and here, after I graduated from here, I worked at the U.N., I went back to school to get my graduate work, the constant cry of these girls was in my face.
We really need a school for girls."
Because there had not been any school for girls.
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